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[Documentation] Adding an example sentence as well as an explanatory …
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Ntsekees committed Oct 18, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -81,11 +81,18 @@ Below are some examples of internal and external case uses with unary roots and
│ ➥ It is asleep.
└─
┌───────────────
│ ◆ Ilı̋ taθayá.
│ ❖ ASR.SEN-asleep NTR-NTRᵢ-EXO:NTR-thing
│ ➥ It is asleep.
└─
┌───────────────
│ ◆ Ilı̋ tacʰakóyu.
│ ❖ ASR.SEN-asleep NTR-NTR-DEF:NTR-dog
│ ❖ ASR.SEN-asleep NTR-NTRᵢ-DEF:NTR-dog
│ ➥ The dog is asleep.
└─
```
In the first example above, “it” is expressed as the extensional prefix ⟪-θ◈-⟫ sporting the Intransitive (`NTR`) inner case vowel ⟪a⟫, indicating that it is the sole argument of the monovalent verb “sleep”.
In the second example, “it” is expressed as a separate word (with the dummy root ⟪-yá⟫), sporting the consonantal outer case ⟪t-⟫, again expressing the Intransitive case.

Examples with the binary root `-ñú`, “eat”:
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